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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Maha Bhakta vijaya''' is a [[Marathi language|Marathi]] text by [[Mahipati]] around 1762 that extols the deeds of the saint-poets of the [[Varkari]] sect of [[Hinduism]]. It has been translated into various languages in India and is widely read. It forms an important part of the prayer for devotees of [[Vithoba]] at [[Pandharpur]]. An English translation was published under the provisions of the will of Justin E. Abbott in 1933.<ref>{{cite book|last=Abbott|first=Justin E.|title=Stories of Indian Saints: An English Translation of Mahipati's BhaktiVijaya , Volume 1|year=1933|publisher=Motilal Banarasidass Publishers|isbn=8120804694|pages=Chapter 9, 34–45|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EQDyZA1y2nMC}}</ref><ref name="Novetzkep53">{{cite book|last=Novetzke|first=Christian Lee|title=Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India|year=1969|publisher=Columbia University Press|location=New York Chichester|isbn=978-0231-14184-0|pages=53|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SqUdRVOv9TUC}}</ref><ref name="CallewaertSnell1994">{{cite book|author1=Winand M. Callewaert|author2=Rupert Snell|title=According to Tradition: Hagiographical Writing in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GrMwdEqHLzEC&pg=PA159|year=1994|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|isbn=978-3-447-03524-8|pages=162–166}}</ref><br />
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It gives a short biographic account of the various devotees from India:<br />
* [[Namdev]]<br />
* [[Tukaram]]<br />
* [[Meera]]<br />
* [[Jñāneśvar]]<br />
* [[Tulsidas]]<br />
* [[Eknath]]<br />
* [[Surdas]]<br />
* [[Kabir]]<br />
* [[Matsyendranath]], [[Gorakhnath]]<br />
* [[Chokhamela]]<br />
* [[Ravidas|Rohidas]]<br />
* [[Narsinh Mehta]]<br />
and many others.<ref>{{cite book|last=Abbott|first=Justin E.|title=Stories of Indian Saints: An English Translation of Mahipati's BhaktiVijaya(Vol I an II)| year=1995|publisher=Motilal Banarasidass Publishers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EQDyZA1y2nMC}}</ref><br />
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